Corset attachment



(No Model.)

0. A. WILLIAMSON.

GORSB-T ATTACHMENT.

Patented May 19 ANDREW B.GHAHAM. PHOIO-UTNQWISHINGWN. D C.

UNITED STATES] PATENT OFFICE.

CATHERINE A. WVILLIAMSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,557, dated May 19,1896. Applioation filed January 31, 1896. Serial No. 577,517. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CATHERINE A. I/VIL- LIAMSON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of St. Louis, in the State" steels,either at the 'front or back of the corset at the waist-line.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is a perspective view showing my attachment applied to use atthe front of a corset. Fig. II is an enlarged perspective view of theattachment removed. Fig. III illustrates a modification.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents an ordinary corset, having theusual steels 2 and 3.

4 represents my attachment. The attachment is made of a thin plate ofabout the width of one of the steels, the material I prefer using beingspring-steel. The plate is provided with spring hooks or catches adaptedto slip over the edge of the corset at the steel and hold the plate inplace. These hooks or catches are formed integral with the plate bycutting openings 4: around portions of the plate and bending thecut-around portion into the form of a clip having a bow 5, an inturnedportion 5 and an outturned lip 5 as shown clearly in Fig. II. 1 For thepurpose of making the attachment as light as possible and at the sametime adding to the flexibility of the plate I cutout portions of theplate, these cut-away portions forming elongated openings 6.

In Figs. I and II, I have shown the plate of a width to reinforce butone of the steels, while in Fig; III, I have shown the plate with aportion 7, adapted to lie beneath the other or adjacent steel tostrengthen or support it. In Fig. III the dotted line A indicates themeeting edges of the corset.

The attachment can be readily applied to the steels of any corset ateither thefront or back of the corset, and is designed to be attached atthe waist-line for the purpose of supplementing or strengthening thesteels at this point.

I claim as my invention a A corset attachment comprising a thin narrowmetal plate 4 formed in one piece with longitudinal openings 6,withtransverse openings 4:, and with transverselyextending spring-catches inthe form of clips struck up from the transverse openings; each catchhaving an outwardly-projecting bo'wed portion 5,

an inturned portion 5 and an. outturned lipped portion 5 partly lappingthe adjacent transverse opening from which the catch is formed;substantially as described.

CATHERINE A. \VILLIAMSON.

In presence of- N. FINLEY, E. S. KNIGHT.

